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Parkman Vol. 1 Part II, Chapter 11

Thus did New France rush into collision with the redoubted warriors of the Iroquois. Here the long conflict France versus Iroquois began.Our

The emperor ordered the end of a pole of Shihi wood to be given to the fisher, and caused him to be taken and pulled into the imperial vessel, of

I must take the liberty of accepting as sufficiently accurate as much of the recorded lives of Jimmu and his successors as the modern prosaic

Today's installment concludes First Swiss Struggle for Liberty,our selection from The Model Republic; a History of the Rise and Progress of the

From our Humor Department:In the 1980s the Soviet leadership decided to open a strip club in Moscow. It was a miserable failure. The commissars in

This series has seven easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: Legendary Japan.IntroductionA story that covers Japan's first emperor

The scene is a familiar one to many a tourist; and perhaps, standing at sunset on the peaceful strand, Champlain saw what a roving student of this

One serious economic result of this heavy taxation is that European industry is placed at a considerable disadvantage in competing with that of other

. . . if Europe had any moral conscience left, it would have been shocked as it was never shocked before.Militarism Before World War I, featuring a